New Smash Bros. screen shows off impact launch move

As Super Smash Bros. development continues, we’re getting new looks at some of the features of the game. This shot is taken from the official Super Smash Bros. website and shows off the impact-launch effect for the Wii U version of the game.

Sakurai described the event via Miiverse, stating that impact launch has been colored to match the characters’ color and will serve to show who gets the points in a knockout. It looks great so far and it’s only a shame that we didn’t get a small animation of an impact launch instead of a screenshot. What do you think?

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Now people will know just that much quicker that I was the one who dealt their death ;D

Clel

We’ll see about that… hehehe

https://twitter.com/Zorpix_Fang Zorpix

you have a U?

Clel

Yeah! Since February, for my birthday (even though my b-day is in March) Do u have a U?

https://twitter.com/Zorpix_Fang Zorpix

of course I do! You should add me. Miiverse name is just Zorpix, like my username

Clel

Cool! Mine is Gandalfo. I know it’s kinda strange, but when creating the Nintendo Network ID, I didn’t know that was the username that would appear. So I just wrote the first thing that came to mind XD
But currently my Wii U doesn’t have regular access to the Internet, so I’ll do it when I can.

https://twitter.com/Zorpix_Fang Zorpix

alrighty. Mine is at home (not college) so I’ll see it on the weekends, but I may bring it back to school anyways.

Shota

add me too guys. shonenjump

Arthur Jarret

I’m Samael_blackwing (psn too)… I did some great art on miiverse before monster hunter was released…

Neither Arthur or Samael is my real name. I also have a different name I use to sign my writing and my non-miiverse artwork.

Kirbyomega

kirbymon123 is me!

https://twitter.com/Onyzora Ony

Gorgeous :3

WiiUisgaming

I do not understand what is Impact launch? Is it a final smash?

Baum 「ツリー」

It’s when you throw someone out of the stage. Everytime you do this you get 1 point and/or the enemie loses a life ^^

The Clockwork Being

impact launch move. It means that when you get hit by a strong attack you go flying and their is like a launch trail that follows you. They just got hit by some character we dont see and now they got launch

Daniel Carvalho

It’s when you give off an impact so hard it launches you off the arena.

Martijn Plasmans

Still not clear what it is? Samus’ is red and Link’s is green…and it will serve to show who gets points in a knockout? So who’s getting points in the screenshot?

The Clockwork Being

impact launch move. It means that when you get hit by a strong attack you go flying and their is like a launch trail that follows you.

Martijn Plasmans

So in the screenshot, Link is hit by Link? And Samus by Samus?

The Clockwork Being

No im thinking by someone else. They just got hit by some character we dont see and now they got launch

Martijn Plasmans

So how will it ” serve to show who gets the points in a knockout”

The Clockwork Being

the way it ill show who get’s the points im just guessing verytime you do this you get 1 point and the the enemy loses a life or a point depending on the game mode.

Madmagican

They show who gets the point because you can trace the launch dash back to the character who launched them

Tails the Foxhound

I’m guessing it corresponds to player colors. So Samus got smashed by player one and Link by player four.

The Clockwork Being

Team Rocket should be in this. When they go flying it would be like.

TEAM ROCKET BLASTING OFF AGAIN!!

MetroidZero

Star KO 5000pts

Ȑaȟuḽ Cớrnhớliớ

Great idea lol ha ha

Kmac

Stop…..

Shota

perfect. just perfect. Flying in the background while saying that. They’re like ice climbers. Final Smash: TEAM ROCKET ROCKET!!

00EpicGamer00

Does Team Rocket even HAVE a rocket!? I thought the only thing they had was a balloon.
But, if team Rocket was made a playable character, it’d be funny if their final smash was them in their balloon, just flying around the stage. And maybe they’d have different things from the episodes each time. Like the arms, cannons etc.

Shota

yeah. but i meant you will hear the music team rocket rocket. Then with the balloon they will fire you with weapons.

00EpicGamer00

Oh, that’s a pretty cool idea, I have to say. I love that song by the way.

Now, regarding this, I think it’s a nice add on. In past games, we couldn’t tell who fell off the arena if many players were thrown outside the screen, until the chaos set down. Can’t wait to see this game running on an actual Wii U!

Hugo Hernandez

You can see the animation for this new launch in here at around 1:13 in the video when link those his spin move.

lozman1122

Sweet. Now I’ll be able to tell my friends to fetch me a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow I’ll be making

lozman1122

Wups. I believe I read the article in error. Sorry!

The Clockwork Being

How so?

Sol Ridgeway

Because it will be the color of the character that did the attack from what this sounds like. So if you are Link you could say, “I’m about to paint this place green… with your face.”

Lusunup

It all depends on the which player launches who not the color of the character 1p is usually red 2p is usually blue 3p is green 4p is yellow I think…. and cpu would be grey

Jake

I have a feeling with all the photos are the Wii U version, it will come out b4 3DS. That’s fine but the 3DS will probably come Christmas while Wii U comes Summer. At least I can get both versions b/c my parents would rarely buy me two games a month, especially if it has the same name.

Clel

Well, it’s not like it’s rocket science or anything…

OH WAIT!

MetroidZero

Why you no reveal Zero Suit Samus?

Nookling

Since Samus was shown to have the same Final Smash, I am guessing Zero Suit Samus will make a return.

Johny

yeah… but she didnt shed off the suit after the final smash :/ thats what worries me, AND at the same time could be a good thing. maybe ZSsamus will be a seperate character or a variation of samus so you dont automaticly transform after the smash

MetroidZero

I think they immediately switched to another gameplay footage when the final smash ended in the trailer (I think), so we never got to see what happened after Samus’s final smash.

Nookling

Ya, it switched before the end of Samus’s smash.

Graeme Lynch

Zero Samus is a MUST! I loved whipping around the stages. I was majorly stoked when I realised she could match Shiek in speed. My friend would always play as the gender bender and piss the living buggery out of me diving around the stage like a cheetah on crack. Anyway I hope she returns alongside Mewtwo. I miss him…

DragonSilths

Samus in the Smash Bros is the Other M version. I dont recall Zero-Suit Samus in Other M…

MetroidZero

Here’s a video with every shot of ZSS in Other M:

Mario

Oh no! She is! But she could only do that in the end.

Mario

You do know that’s a transformation. Right? Samus is Samus. No matter what suit she has.

MetroidZero

*Facepalm*

Mario

What’s that about?

Adam Porter

anyways, i’ve been in every games shop in donegal and tyrone today and not one has a copy of pikmin3, anyone know when i can download it?

Fred

Which country do you live in?

Adam Porter

ireland, i’m actually downloading the game right now

Exuld Acrex

oh I get it, 1st player is red, 2nd is blue, 3rd is yellow, and 4th
is green. not the colors of the actual characters.

Elem187

Or these two colors came from Mario and Luigi? Or Mario and Link.

00EpicGamer00

Umm…..In the article, it says “the impact launch has been colored to match the character’s color”.

Tails the Foxhound

Yeah, but think about the characters’ alternate colors. How many different ones would they have to program in, and what if two people are using the same character? It’s more likely that it’s the player color than the character color.

00EpicGamer00

You do know that their are different shades of the same color, right? Two players CAN’T use the same color, that’s been in every smash bros. Like, for instance, if I choose Bowser to be blue, the second player CAN’T choose Bowser to be blue.
Now, if you mean a character that has a color the same as someone else’s, all they’d have to do is change the shade of the impact. Like, for instance, with light blue yoshi, the impact launch would be light blue. With Captain Falcon (original color), the impact would obviously be a more darker shade of blue. Original green Yoshi’s impact would be a light/lime green, while Link’s is an emerald like green.
And honestly, I think programming different shades of color to the characters alternative colors, wouldn’t be THAT difficult. I mean, yeah sure, it probably wouldn’t be like a “1, 2, 3 you’re done” sort of thing. But it surely wouldn’t be the most difficult thing to ever program into a game.

Tails the Foxhound

But how many of those shade will be meaningfully different? They’d need a different shade of red, green, blue and yellow for every single character, it’d be much simpler to color code it to the player slot.

Lusunup

Look at the smash video trailer 1:07 link lauches both fox with a yellow impact donkey kong with red impact launch then at 1:38 when villager launches marios launch impact turned blue theres no point in arguing it’s by players color. CPU is white

00EpicGamer00

Then why did they lie!?
If the colors don’t match the characters colors, then their saying something that isn’t true. There’s a difference between “players color”, and “characters color”.

Ducked

Samus needs to be in a new Metroid game

Mario

She’s always in Metroid games! She’s the protagonist of the series!

Ducked

Did you read my post? I said a “new game”.

Mario

Yes. I read it.

Lusunup

Of course thier not going to replace samus in a metroid game..

http://nintendopapercraftvideos.wordpress.com/ Sam

That looks great!

Razo_E

Sweet! I love stealing kills during a final smash. If you time it right, you can hit the person that just got smash’d before they fly off the screen and the kill will count as yours.

Lusunup

OMG that makes me rage xD but I love it!

Nookling

Just waiting for another returning fighter! My bet is on Luigi as it is the year of Luigi. I am thinking it will be a character reveal a month. If you don’t count the original ones revealed in the E3 slot for Smash, Wii Fit Trainer was revealed in June and Olimar in July. Who will clame Augest? Peach, Diddy Kong, Ness? Captain Falcon, Marth, Yoshi? JIGGLYPUFF?

Nookling

I realize that the announced fighters are all from different franchises, so Captain Falcon, Ness or Marth seem likely to me.

Tails the Foxhound

Puff, Luigi, Falcon and Ness probably won’t be revealed. They won’t be gone, but they’re all always unlockables, we won’t be seeing them until we play the game (or he reveals spoilers again).

Nookling

Ya, I guess that’s true. I guess I’ll go with Marth! Maybe they will switch up the unlockables this time around though.

timehacker11

The creator complains about leaked cutscenes before SSBB’s release, and yet he releases brand new screen shots of a unreleased game? LMAO pathetic.

Guest

But he kind of is justified for not wanting something that could make the game less of a suprise leaked such as cutscenes. This is something small which really doesn’t ruin/effect the first impression of the game.

TaintedXGamer

Try saying that to the creator, no wonder we don’t get no story mode this time round, to be honest I actually liked subspace emissary mode.

Michael Jurado

oh that’s just awesome ^_^

http://twitch.tv/dve2k DVE

FALCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON PUNCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

http://www.mpt-online.eu/ Sylux

Samus and Link it huh, just wondering why Samus has red, shouldn’t it be orange as the majority of her suit is orange, and 10% red and another 15% yellow. I would assume Mario would be red O well doesn’t really matter, I just noticed and started to think about it. Screenshot looks cool though. Definitely a shame we didn’s see a small animation for it, but maybe that’s for the best, otherwise they might have removed the impact moves like they removed both story mode and cutscenes :'(

http://twitch.tv/dve2k DVE

Falcon Punch Koolaid Style Mmmmmmmm, but why can’t it be grape >:(

zerooooo

“shame that we didn’t get a small animation” did watch the trailer? We have seen this already nothing new…

Zeldatrek

What!?! Are Din and Farore in Smash too? And poor Nyrule is left out this time.

TaintedXGamer

lol

Kirbyomega

I think when he said it would match the color of the character he meant the character that made the KO, like if you were player 1 and you ko’d somebody the blast would be red, etc. red (1P), blue (2P), yellow (3P), and green (4P). He just made it so player 1 ko’d Samus and player 4 ko’d Link so it would look cool.

Sidney Majurie

That pic reminded me of Ocarina of Time when you get the cut scene showing how the Goddesses created Hyrule

Nicholas John Hilzinger

am i the only one who thought of the golden goddesses from OoT?

$41809923

that green character looks like a new character in the game it might be a custom robo character thats what it looks like to me

John Raybell

facepalm. ITS LINK!!!!!!!!!

http://MacroManJr.blogspot.com/ Brian Lockett

The almighty *facepalm* is more for moments of severe lack of one using their brain–not for simple moments of not making out a rather obscured character clearly.